SOCI 4410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crime Prevention, Environmental Design
24 Aug 2017
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Hotspots of crime: zoning theory: crime occurs in the centre of the city, decreases from the core of the city to the outer parts of the city. Does lighting reduce crime this received a lot of attention however there are mixed results: eg. Street closures : controlling problem offenders is very difficult to . Parking lots garages: evidence shows that guards and cameras do reduce vehicle related property crimes. Uni of marylin: came up with the requirement, if met scale 5 it met the requirement, something like 3 was not reliable: replication: it is not sufficient that the policy is based on one study. It must be confirmed by various studies: meta-analysis: to ensure that you have all possible article, studies included. Sense and nonsense on crime: when crime rates are high it feeds to the political climate and politicians therefore do what they want based on no evidence.
